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Rehires them to better train their AI. They’ll be back out again shortly. :/

See, what I see is that Ford intends to keep using AI, they’re just temporarily using experienced humans to train the AI to be better at it’s job before getting rid of the humans again.

Honestly, fingers and movement have been two of the telling signs of AI photos and video for a long time. Just like they’ve used captchas to crowd-source house numbers for their maps, and vehicle information and street infrastructure for their attempts at self-driving vehicles, they’re now crowd-sourcing data for AI images and video.

Plus they’ll get geo-information on your location, and video of your immediate area - like the inside of your house. They’ve had code that processes images and gives feedback on the people in the photo, their likely income and interests, and suggests ads targeted to those people. With geo-location, fingerprinting your phone, and now pictures of the inside of your house, they’re really dialing in on their surveillance and ad databases.

Not saying that the opportunity to build facial ID banks isn’t a bonus. But don’t discount the opportunity to spy inside everyone’s homes, and to improve their ability to literally generate their own version of reality - or to produce “evidence” disproving your reality to everyone else.

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don’t have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc. And suddenly you’re being asked to give up one piece of space that’s supposedly reserved for you, to yet another ‘move fast, break things, get permission later’ techbro “innovation” that no one’s asked for.

There’s no regulation over them, no standards that they have to follow or how to behave, no way for the public to specifically identify a robot when they encounter it in public (like, say, your robot ran into my car or whatever).

I’d only allow them if each robot carried a certain amount of insurance, was registered and had some kind of license plate, had turn signals (I don’t know if they do, the ones I saw didn’t), had limited operating hours and locations, were forced to move aside for humans, etc - basically make them the absolute lowest priority thing on the streets and sidewalks. Streets, bike lanes, sidewalks, subways, etc, were each built for specific forms of human movement. If techbros want to introduce a new type of system, they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots), instead of just blatantly overloading already-stressed public infrastructure.

The rope in the video (available in the comment link above) is very clearly not linked to one of the instructors.

I did not know that she asked for it; I was working off several comments like this:

That type of “jump” uses a swinging action rather than elastic rope to break your fall but is still heavily dependent on the idiots working the attraction to tie it to you.

Done correctly, you need to be carrying forward momentum so they toss you rather than trust you to jump outwards enough.

It was invented by rock climbers. Different from bungee.

While I’m going off just the way things sound (because I don’t speak Portuguese) that video does not appear to have anyone particularly concerned until just after she was thrown [I admit I stopped watching just after they threw her off, when the camera focused on the rope on the ground and it was apparent what had happened).

I’m not sure how the fact that the instructors are wearing harnesses is relevant? The woman’s harness/rope/whatever was still clearly not connected to her, and is still on the ground in the video.

Was 31 in 2013 when he ran over that woman, so he’d be about 44 right now - The same age as the man they just arrested.

I accidentally saw the video. Because of the type of jump, they don’t trust people to get far enough away from the bridge on their own, so they pick the person up, hold them at shoulder height, trot forward a couple of paces, and throw the person off. And they did that, they just … left the bungee rope on the ground to their left and threw her off the bridge. No one even said anything until just after she’d been thrown :(

Trump’s approval rating among rural Americans dropped in June to a new low of 50%

Still too high.

“My day to day ⁠is negatively impacted and I haven’t seen these other benefits.”

LAMF, they’re not hurting the right people, etc. I’m just so tired of these people …

Flood the zone. Move fast, break things.

Probably dogs. No, seriously. Australia. Hawaii. Ireland.

Iirc, they had a tarp up when they put the name in; and they currently have the tarps up now.

What I don’t get is why they’re using scaffolding and making such a complex process. Surely it would’ve been quicker and cheaper to send up some guys in a couple of cherry pickers.

designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two

Not deter Israel from stealing more territory, just deter companies from participating.

The French nobles didn’t have private jets waiting to whisk them off to the far side of the planet.

I’ve done that before, and they’ve reverted my comments. I’ve also overwritten and then deleted my comments, and they’ve reverted them. Sometimes it takes them a while - a few months, once over a year - but somehow my comments always magically appear again.

Given Trump’s visit to China, the Iran war is likely being used as an excuse. Not that we aren’t low on munitions, but Xi likely convinced Trump that he doesn’t need or want to defend Taiwan.

Medvedev said […] that Europe’s “impotent” leaders should stop expressing outrage over the incident since they were directly ​participating in a war against Russia.

[…] He said such incidents were particularly likely to continue in places where drones were being made for Ukraine. “After all, European drones, ⁠spare parts for them, and other weapons, not to mention intelligence, are used in attacks on our country every day. As a result of their actions, residential ⁠buildings are being damaged, in which our civilians are dying,” said Medvedev.

More of Moscow’s entitled bullying behavior: “Ukraine is ours! How dare you help them resist of attacks!” And in the meantime, Moscow has been conducting low level guerilla warfare against Europe and those friendly to the EU for years now - cutting undersea internet cables, arranging cyberattacks, blowing up train lines, jamming gps, violating airspace, arranging plane crashes against those they perceive as enemies of Moscow.

Also, the sheer hypocrisy of Russia invading and occupying multiple territories in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, then playing the victim when one of their victims retaliates in even just a low level way is just incredible.

It’s also worth noting that all of this is at least partially enabled and justified by Moscow’s post-WWII policies of forcibly relocating portions of the population in occupied Iron Curtain countries to be used as slave labor inside Russia; and relocating Russians into those same occupied territories to function as a privileged administrative class not subject to the privations the normal people went through, who then acted as an incredibly vocal pro-Russian movement after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia has used those “independent” voices as a justification for their territorial ambitions.

If only they’d stayed in Russia, they’d likely still be alive.

In defense of Trump’s fragile ego, because Iran isn’t giving in.

You missed the transition from “ebola in Africa” in the first part of the paragraph to a parallel distrustful reaction in the US during covid. If it helps, that transition point is the part of the sentence that reads, “Or if you’re in the US”.